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WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN?
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| 9.9.08
| Jonathan Haidt
Posted on 09/12/2008 4:10:53 PM PDT by Comparative Advantage
What makes people vote Republican? Why in particular do working class and rural Americans usually vote for pro-business Republicans when their economic interests would seem better served by Democratic policies? We psychologists have been examining the origins of ideology ever since Hitler sent us Germany's best psychologists, and we long ago reported that strict parenting and a variety of personal insecurities work together to turn people against liberalism, diversity, and progress. But now that we can map the brains, genes, and unconscious attitudes of conservatives, we have refined our diagnosis: conservatism is a partially heritable personality trait that predisposes some people to be cognitively inflexible, fond of hierarchy, and inordinately afraid of uncertainty, change, and death. People vote Republican because Republicans offer "moral clarity"a simple vision of good and evil that activates deep seated fears in much of the electorate. Democrats, in contrast, appeal to reason with their long-winded explorations of policy options for a complex world.
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Interesting read. Too bad it's polluted with a rebuttal from some guy named Roger Schank (see comments section). He's also on this site. I found this column from a link on Slate.com. I think it's worth reading.
To: Comparative Advantage
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posted on
09/12/2008 4:17:50 PM PDT
by
xcamel
(Conservatives start smart, and get rich, liberals start rich, and get stupid.)
To: Comparative Advantage
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posted on
09/12/2008 4:18:45 PM PDT
by
Silly
(PalinLove.com)
To: Comparative Advantage
Why in particular do working class and rural Americans usually vote for pro-business Republicans when their economic interests would seem better served by Democratic policies?I don't buy the premise by a long shot.
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posted on
09/12/2008 4:20:42 PM PDT
by
lawnguy
(The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil-Cicero)
To: Silly
I see 50 state pins there. where are the other 7?
To: Comparative Advantage
Democrats, in contrast, appeal to reason...OK, this is from The Onion? Iowa Hawk?
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posted on
09/12/2008 4:24:28 PM PDT
by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: Comparative Advantage
Q: WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN?
A:
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posted on
09/12/2008 4:25:14 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Please visit my newly revised FR Home/About page for ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections)
To: lawnguy
That’s what I was going to say: because they (Republicans) aren’t fooled by the liberal-socialist (fantasy) politics.
Especially the lie that their economic interests are better under socialists.
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posted on
09/12/2008 4:28:58 PM PDT
by
JSDude1
To: lawnguy
That’s what I was going to say: because they (Republicans) aren’t fooled by the liberal-socialist (fantasy) politics.
Especially the lie that their economic interests are better under socialists.
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posted on
09/12/2008 4:28:59 PM PDT
by
JSDude1
To: Comparative Advantage
Why in particular do working class and rural Americans usually vote for pro-business Republicans when their economic interests would seem better served by Democratic policies? Because "rural Americans" love their country while Democrats hate their country and hate rural hicks.
Rural Americans and working class want more for themselves and their family than a chicken in every pot.
And finally this rural American and working class American who does more than half of his own businesses manual labor makes more money than these professors combined.
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posted on
09/12/2008 4:29:46 PM PDT
by
normy
(Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
To: ETL
This is either recycled from a year or so ago, or it is garbage they are trying to resurface. Nice touch to try and link conservatives to Nazis.
These people need to read Liberal Fascism.
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posted on
09/12/2008 4:30:35 PM PDT
by
CT
(Joe Biden: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTwnwbG9YLE)
To: Comparative Advantage
People vote Republican because Republicans offer "moral clarity"a simple vision of good and evil that activates deep seated fears in much of the electorate. Democrats, in contrast, appeal to reason with their long-winded explorations of policy options for a complex world. You know, he's right. I say slaughtering babies is wrong. I have "moral clarity" about it. Democrats, in contrast, attempt "long-winded explorations of policy options" to make themselves feel better about the atrocities they commit.
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posted on
09/12/2008 4:33:17 PM PDT
by
Onelifetogive
(Seriously, do I need to add the sarc tag?)
To: Comparative Advantage
The answer is the GOP has expanded its voter base over the years by incrementally appeasing socialists. Hitlery Clinton supporters will naturally gravitate to a GOP candidate who has voted with the socialist Democrats on many issues and sponsored legislation with the like likes of flaming socialists Teddy Kennedy, Joe Lieberman and Russ Feingold on some of their most favored issues including amnesty for illegals, the fallacy of human induced global warming and restricting free speech under the guise of campaign finance reform.
The irony is so many are willing to vote for McCain despite the fact he Bush support giving amnesty to illegals! The more people ignore history the more likely they are to repeat it.
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posted on
09/12/2008 4:38:32 PM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
To: ETL
It is very curious why this particular picture is black and white. I think that the purpose is to convey the sense that Barack is a civil rights leader in the tradional sense of the pictures that we all see of MLK and the rest of his followers back in the 60s. Very subtle gamesmanship going on here with the press..
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posted on
09/12/2008 4:43:17 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: CT
Nice touch to try and link conservatives to Nazis. Huh?
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posted on
09/12/2008 4:55:09 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Please visit my newly revised FR Home/About page for ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections)
To: CT
Nice touch to try and link conservatives to Nazis. Never mind. I thought you were referring to the photo I posted. I hadn't read the article until now.
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posted on
09/12/2008 4:57:32 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Please visit my newly revised FR Home/About page for ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections)
In college I learned the Nazis were socialists. I may have had a bad education...I admit I never went to Harvard...
To: Comparative Advantage
“Why in particular do working class and rural Americans usually vote for pro-business Republicans when their economic interests would seem better served by Democratic policies?”
Because they’re NOT best served by Democratic policies? Maybe? Just Possibly?
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posted on
09/12/2008 5:11:25 PM PDT
by
Ellendra
(Most eco-freaks wouldn't know nature if it bit them on the butt . . . and it often does!)
To: Comparative Advantage
WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN? Common sense, and democrats want to take what is yours, republicans want to keep what is ours
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posted on
09/12/2008 5:15:28 PM PDT
by
edzo4
(Vote McCain, Keep Your Change)
To: ETL
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